ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,060, issued on June 24, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Yoshiki Usui (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Harada (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Yoshie (Aichi, Japan), Kouichi Kawamoto (Osaka, Japan), Ken Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tadafumi Kurogi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazufumi Takeshita (Tokyo) and Kenichi Kuwayama (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes a first shield made of metal and disposed to surround a circuit board. The first shield includes a first bottom surface portion, a second bottom surface portion disposed to be separated from...